TOPEKA — Kansas House Speaker Dan Hawkins said the 2026 Legislature would strive to slash $200 million from the state government’s budget and seek to reduce expenditures on the Medicaid program delivering health care to low-income adults and children. Hawkins, a Wichita Republican who has ...
Candidates are lining up for the 2026 election in Kansas to replace Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, whose second term ends in 2027. For the past eight years, the greatest obstacle for Republicans in the state Legislature has been Kelly’s veto pen. That alone has blocked or delayed the ...
The Kansas State Board of Education and Attorney General Kris Kobach have been fighting about whether Kansas should drop a ban on discrimination against persons based on sexual orientation or gender identity from public school district contracts tied to federally funded nutrition ...
ATLANTA — President Donald Trump and other Republicans have long criticized states that take weeks to count their ballots after Election Day. This year has seen a flurry of activity to address it. Part of Trump’s executive order on elections, signed in March but held up by lawsuits, takes ...
Kansas Republican Sen. Jerry Moran is hailing the passage of a budget bill that makes drastic cuts to Medicaid after he made changes that he said will protect Kansas hospitals from the effect of the cuts. But health care stakeholders argue it’s not enough to keep some state hospitals from ...
TOPEKA — Two tax bills will head to the Kansas governor’s desk after clearing the Senate Thursday, but Republicans and Democrats differed on whether the tax relief made good on their campaign promises to Kansans. Senate Democrats condemned the legislation in back-to-back debates as ...
Election Day is Nov. 5 when polls will be open 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Advance voting also has started. Residents can cast ballots from 8 a.m.-4:45 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Leavenworth County Courthouse. Advance voting ends at noon Nov. 4. Satellite voting also is available, including 10 ...
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly said state government tax revenues in August were nearly $23 million above projections, reflecting collections of personal income tax and retail sales tax greater than last year’s. Kelly, a Topeka Democrat, said total state revenue for the month hit $665 million, ...
TOPEKA — Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Nancy Boyda and Libertarian-turned-Republican Michael Ogle filed Monday to expand to seven the major party candidates drawn to the 2nd District vacancy created by the decision of GOP Congressman Jake LaTurner to not seek reelection. Boyda, the Baldwin ...
TOPEKA — Republican legislators in Kansas have revived a proposal to stop giving voters three extra days after polls close to return mail ballots after making key concessions in a bid to get enough votes from rural GOP lawmakers to overcome the Democratic governor’s potential ...
